PSY100H1 Lecture : PSY100 Lecture #1
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Because you re interested in people, psychology is supposed to be about what makes people tick, want to help people. All in all psychology help to understand people in many ways. Fundamental insights of psychology: reality is a story, told to us by our brain. Our experience do not reflect reality itself but rather a construction or representation of reality: this constructions process involves a lot of guesswork filling in the gaps , this subjective representation occurs within the brain. *the mind is what the brain does (according to the textbook) We only have access to a limited subset of reality. The limitations of out sensory-perceptual system are due to . The sensitivity of our sensory mechanisms y y our attentional capacity. We behaviour based on our perception not on our reality, which is not always correct. Perception is a process of creative story-telling and inference making. We have to fill in a lot of gaps.
